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The nominations for the Pushcart Prize this year are (in alphabetical order):
Battle of Branxton Moor by Sharmagne Leland-St.John
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Sept2021/batt.html
Karma by Candace Turner
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2021/karm.html
Limpkin by Meg Kearney
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2021/limp.html
Mary Oliver Wants to Die When It's Raining, by Lenora Rain-Lee Good
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2021/mary.html
There's a River by the Edge of Town
by Victor Riehl
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2021/ther2.html
Two Women, by Maryann Frost Delaney
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2021/wome.html
First runner up:
Resetting the Aperture by Gloria Viglione
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2021/rese.html
Second runners up:
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Anasazi Blizzard by Lenora Rain-Lee Good
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2021/anas.html
Ask Me (for Charles 62nd birthday)by Gail Entrekin
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2021/askm.html
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Catch and Release by Gloria Viglione
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2021/catc.html
Cicadas by Michael Escoubas
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2021/cica.html
Circles of Light by Bakul Banerjee
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2021/circ.html
Crow by Meg Kearney
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Oct2021/new.html
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Dreaming in Gallipoli WWI, 1915 by Bakul Banerjee
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2021/drea.html
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endless by Anne Tammel
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/April2021/endl.html
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For John by Gloria Viglione
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2021/john.html
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Girasol by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2021/gira.html
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He Says Nothing, Does Everything by Chris Wood
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2021/says.html
Homeless (a haiku sequence) by Charlotte Digregorio
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2020/home.html
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Leda Remembers by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2021/leda.html
Losing Track Claire Scott
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2021/losi.html
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Midwest July by Kathy Lohrum Cotton
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2021/midw.html
Mrs. Gilhooly Dancing by Neal Leadbetter
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Feb2021/gilh.html
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Never Too Late by Mark Fleisher
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Nov2021/neve.html
November by Tobi Alfier
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Nov2021/moon.html
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On Behalf of a Grateful Nation
by Lenora Rain-Lee Good
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Nov2021/beha.html
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pandemic baby by Wilda Morris
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2021/pand.html
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Ritual with Grampy by MFrost Delaney
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2021/ritu.html
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Sax Man by Nancy Cummins Bierman
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2021/sax.html
Sea of Sighs by KB Ballentine
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2021/sigh.html
Sudden Mountain Storm by Gillian Nevers
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2021/sudd.html
Sunflowers by Maralee Gerke
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2021/sun2.html
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There was a river… by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2021/ther3.html
Tōmyōdai: The Early Lighthouses by Sally Nacker
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2021/tomy.html
The Coast Starlight by Greg Gregory
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2021/coas.html
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Walking Rain by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Jan2021/walk.html
What To Do With Intangibles by Michael Keshigian
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/June2021/what.html
WildWoods by Gloria Viglione
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2021/wild.html
You Ask About Ham by Lory Levy
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2020/abou.html
Your journey's just begun… by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
http://quillandparchment.com/archives/Dec2020/your.html
Honourable Mention
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A Blessing by Denise Buschmann
Acrostic for Crows by Michael Escoubas
Adieu, Summer by Sherry Lindner
Afternoon Mood by Sharmagne Leland-St.John
After The Memorial by MFrostDelaney
Anais, by Sharmagne L eland-St. John
Ask Me by Gail Entreken
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Best Day of the Year by Thelma T. Reyna,
Bittersweet Surrender by Michael Escoubas
Burlesque Queen by Vaughn Neeld
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Casualty by Vaughn Neeld
Catch and Release by Gloria Viglione
Clerihew for Doris Lessing by Mary Audrey Kneipp
Come Home by Cassie Premo Steele
Crows and Doves by Mary Audrey Kneipp
Country Thanksgiving by Michael Escoubas
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Dad Could Have Been a Pastor by Wilda Morris
Darkness Framed by Lenora Rain-Lee Good
Desire by Kate Kingston
Discovering Another Poet by Kathy Lohrum Cotton
Dream by Maryann Delaney
Dust by Patrick Reardon
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Early Morning Haiku by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Emergence by Michael Escoubas
Empty Spaces' by Alice Pero
Eulogy for Hector Pieterson by Sharmagne Leland-St.John
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Fall Returns to Wisconsin by Mary Jo Balistreri
Final Flight by Carol Kilty
Flamingos by Michael Escoubas
For Gail on Her Birthday by Charles Entrekin
For John by Gloria Viglione
Framing by Susan Holm
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Green Mountain by Yang Jian; Translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
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If I am Summer by Alice Pero
In Praise of Lady Poverty and Her House
by Barbara Robinette
Interlude by Mary Jo Balistreri
In the Mood for Orange: from An Interview with Lori Levy
by Neil Leadbeater
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Kaleidoscope Boy by Sean Lause
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Lady Autumn by Gay Williford
Leda and the Swan by MFrostDelaney
Leda Betrayed Vaughn Neeld
Longing for Spring by Christine Swanberg
Loss by Lenora Rain-Lee Good
Love Poem for Gail by Charles Entrekin
Love's Vivid Transparence by Michael Escoubas
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Malibu by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Mariposa Monarca Speaks by Candace Armstrong
Mariposa Monarca by Paulette Demers Turco
May Triptych by Isabel Chenot - II. to a mother, on burying her infant son
May Triptych III by Isabel Chenot - from a poor Peruvian single mother of six, who was dying—from her own words
Missoula by Gloria Viglione
Moonlight in Winter by Vaughn Neeld
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New York 1932, by Mary Jo Balestriri
Nighthawks by Maryann Delaney
1950s Trips to Rockingham Park by MF Delaney
November by Tobi Alfier
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Old Business by Joyce Gregor
Old Farmhand Remembers by Marcel Aime Duclos
Our First Summer by Kathy Lohrum Cotton
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Perfectionism by Lois Parker Edstrom
Picket Fence by Michael Escoubas
Pilgrimage to Cuba New Mexico, by Lenora Rain-Lee Good
Pillar by Joan Alice Wood Kimball
Poet's Wish List by Lois Parker Edstrom
Pray And Hold On< by Gail Denham
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Queen Danainae by Michelle Young
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Rain, Whispering by KB Ballentine
Relieved by Carole Mertz
Remembering Jane Kenyon by Michael Escoubas
Ritual with Grampy by Maryann Delaney
Reading Jibananada in Snowstorms by Bakul Banerjee
Robert Lowell shops at Sears by Sean Lause
Room in Brooklyn by Mary Jo Balistreri
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Sardines, Salmon, Baseball Bats by Mark Fleisher
Science by Jane Lang
Senryũ by Charlotte Digregorio
September 11, 2013 by Sheri Lindner
Serenaded by Sunflowers by Mark Fleisher
Simpler Days by MFrostDelaney
Spring Snow by MFrost Delaney
Starlings by Meg Kearney
Still Life by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Summer Garden by Kathy Lohrum Cotton
Summer's Gone Now by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Sweeping Through October by Gay Williford
Synergist by Michael Keshigia
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Thank You, Doctor by Lori Levy
The Coast Starlight by Greg Gregory
The Dream by Carole Bugge
The Empty Chair by Sheila Elliott (A Huitan
The Mentor by MFrostDelaney
The Red Lacquer Room—for Lynda Hull by Christine Swanbert
The Rivers of Hades by James Green
The World as Reconciliation by Michael Escoubas
Three Clerihews by Candace Turner
Through the Heavy Gray, by Paulette Demers Turco
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Untethered by K.B. Ballentine
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Venice by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Vermont Snowfall by Sheri Lindner
Village by the Sea by Michael Escoubas
Virga, by Wayne Lee
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Winds of love by Gay Williford
What To Do With Intangibles by Michael Keshigian
When It's Spring by Levi L. Mohler
Whispers from a Bench Along the Trail by Sara Sarna
Winter Spell by Christine Swanberg
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You Lie So Very Still in the Mornings by Jim Bumgarner
Your journey's just begun... by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
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